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Thursday, September 24, 2009

Thursday, September 24, 2009

It's time to ramp up the geekage on our Cake Wrecks "Virtual" Tour by paying a little visit to GeekDad.

GeekDad("Raising Geek Generation 2.0") is the parenting blog over on Wired, although they feature plenty of clever tutorials, reviews, articles, and interviews to interest even the non-parent geeks like myself.

If you are a parent, though, and are looking to instill the proper geeky vices in your offspring, cakes are a great way to do it. (Right now you're wondering: Just how many times CAN she fit the word "geek" into this post? Ahh, read on and learn, gwasshoppa.) For example, say your little girl is really into Princesses. How can you add a dash of the geek while still giving her the cake she wants?

Like so.

Or maybe she gave you a lot of leeway, and just asked for something in her favorite colors, pink and yellow. Well, who's to say Wolverine doesn't go great with that color scheme?

That's right: NOBODY.

Of course, if you're really lucky, your little girl will let you order just about anything, so long as it's on a lace doily and comes in a pink box:

Subtlety is the key, of course. There's no need for overkill.

That's right, geek parents: raise your girl right, and someday she just might be requesting this on her birthday:

Er, hopefully because she likes Catwoman, I mean. Not so much because of the black-leather-and-whips thing. Heh. Um...yeeeah.

Well, on that awkward note...be sure to check out my virtual chat with GeekDad Doug here!

My 6 year old daughter would go for ANY of those cakes..especially the princess/Darth Vader combo. She's a very girly girl...but LOVES the boys' stuff too. I suspect it wasn't Dad's geekiness that inspired that cake..rather the dual interests of a very eclectic little girl! :) (or boy!)

Someone please please please make that first cake with the three princesses actually fighting Darth Vader with tiny light sabers. I would donate $10 to the cake-making cause, just for the hilarity it would bring to my life.

Ah hahaha!! Yesss cake 1 is pretty amazing! Belle looks like she has her arms crossed, head titled, about to sass Darth for interrupting their ball. Meanwhile Cinderella looks like she is trying to grab her dress so it wont get hit by the light saber. And Aurora.... is just clueless to the whole act. Or maybe she is yelling at Belle to "not screw this one up for her!" I mean it IS a man technically.

I LOVE the Darth Vader/Princess cake!! Darth looks so well done and it looks like the Princesses kicked his butt!! That is something I would have loved as a kid (I got those requisite scary 80's clown heads and Strawberry Shortcake!)

My oldest daughter actually requested a cake with all of the Disney Princesses along with Padme & Princess Leia for her 5th birthday cake. I couldn't find the last two in time for her party, maybe next year!

Pink, yellow, and Wolverine? Yeah, I TOTALLY would've asked for that one when I was a kid. I was always so sad when we played X-men that I had to play as a girl one, because the guys had so much cooler powers.

The Hulk cake is scary. Not just because it's covered with gross amounts of frosting to hide the cupcakes, or because the frosting is painted green, but because there are so many disembodied Hulk heads around it.

Ok so I think I have geeked my daughter enough. I am soo proud of her. As I was looking through the cake pics she was looking over my shoulder and goes, is that Catwoman? YES, she is a geekazoid lol well I kind of knew that already as she loves watching all the geek shows out there. I mean what kid doesn't love How it's Made? Right? lol or how about Batman? She is my mini geek, but she really didn't have a choice as she has parents who are both geeks. yeah no chance of her NOT being one with those odds lol

Darth Vader looks like he's about to put the light saber to those Disney princesses. D= *vwooom* "Aaaaa, you killed Cinderella!!"

Either that, or Cinderella is saying, "You can't win, Darth. If you strike us down, we will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine." XD (if that's the case then he already got Hannah Montana, that girl is everywhere!)

If Simone has a whip-wielding Catwoman on her cake at 8 years old, look out! She's going to be a handful in 8 more years.

My soon to be 6 yr old daughter would love the first cake. This year however she asked for a Halloween themed party since we're doing it in Oct. She wants a cake that has body parts on it. She even found a severed foot to put on it. Weird girl. She thinks anatomy is cool.

First off, Love the princess/Darth Vader cake. I think I want one for my next birthday.

I would like to point out that not only do you get Wolverine on that pink and yellow cake, but it appears to be Magneto in the other cornor. Maybe it is not really a pink and yellow cake, but rather a pink and yellow boxing ring.

Also, I think the Hulk is a dreaded CCC. How could one possibly get those angles of swirls without cupcakes?

I don't care if the Hulk one is a CCC, it's awesome. He's my favorite superhero. I never cared for the comics, but I loved (and still do) the TV show with Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno, and the NBC cartoon from the 80s'.

I've seen many bad cakes here, but that Hulk cake was the most disgustingly unappealing one I've seen. Isn't it odd to know that some humans consider that food? I'm gonna post it on my fridge to motivate me to diet and eat healthier. Barf!

Yep, my 4 year old daughter wanted a Princess Darth Vader Spiderman birthday. Unfortunately, Spiderman couldn't fit on the cake and there were no lightsabers for the princesses. But... we laughed for an hour about this cake - the icing lady told us it took her alm0st an hour!! imagine that... lol

My little cousin (turning 5, I think) asked for a Star Trek cake of the episode "where Spock and Kirk fight over the mean lady who doesn't even want him". It was a pretty ugly cake - we didn't have much to work with - but he LOVED it.

I am 18 years old, and I'm the girliest geek I know. My entire dorm room is decorated in pink. If you look closely, however, you will see that my pink bulletin board is actually a nerd board, complete with "Spock is Hot" bumper sticker, Monty Python buttons, a Disney pin of Yoda and a you-must-be-this-tall-to-ride sign (Judge me by my size, do you?), and my lanyard from GenCon.

That being said, I took one look at that first cake and nearly died from joy. Disney princesses and Star Wars are two of my favorite things. I thought, "Surely this cake was meant for me."

Then I looked at the inscription. "Happy Birthday Sarah."

My name is Sarah.

Is my life complete? Why, yes, I believe it is. Or will be as soon as someone gets me that cake. ;)

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